World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-BREF) - get around scale

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World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-BREF) - get around scale

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Scale used to assess the ability of the participant to get around, as part of the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHQOL-BREF) questionnaire

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Qualified

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1

very poor

very poor

2

Poor

Poor

3

neither poor nor well

neither poor nor well

4

well

well

5

very well

very well

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World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-BREF) - get around scale

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How well are you able to get around?

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Scale used to assess the ability of the participant to get around, as part of the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHQOL-BREF) questionnaire

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The WHOQOL Group (1998). Development of the World Health Organization WHOQOL=Bref QoL Assessment. Psychological Medicine, 28, 551-559. The WHOQOL Group. The World Health Organization Quality of Life assessment (WHOQOL): Development and general psychometric properties. Soc Sci Med 1998; 46: 1569-1585. Skevington SM, Lofty M, & O'Connell KA (2004). The World Health Organization's WHOQOL-BREF quality of life assessment: Psychometric properties and results of the international field trial. A Report from the WHOQOL Group. Quality of Life Research, 13, 299-310. Yao G and Wu C (2005). Factorial invariance of the WHOQOL-BREF among disease groups. Qual Life Res. 14, 1881-1888. Hirayama MS, Gobbi S, Gobbi LTB, Stella F, Quality of Life in relation to disease severity in Brazilian Parkinson's patients as measured using the WHOQOL-BREF, Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics 46, (2008), 147-160.